Chaudhry, Omair; Mackaness, William(Institute of Geography. The School of Geosciences.The University of Edinburgh, 2006)

Roads are essential component of topographic maps and spatial databases. The challenge in automated
generalisation of road networks is to derive a connected network while maintaining the structure for the intended ...

Chaudhry, Omair; Mackaness, William(Institute of Geography. The School of Geosciences.The University of Edinburgh, 2006)

This paper explores the application of map generalisation techniques in the creation of small
scale mapping (1:250,000) directly from large scale data (1:1250 and 1:2500). Small scale
mapping provides a synoptic overview. ...

Mackaness, William; Chaudhry, Omair(Institute of Geography. The School of Geosciences.The University of Edinburgh, 2006)

It is only at small scales that we get a synoptic view of the world. That synoptic view is composed
of highly characteristic forms – these forms representing ‘ideas’ or concepts, and their location. In
the example (Figure ...

Considerable interest remains in capturing once geographical information at the fine
scale, and from this, automatically deriving information at various levels of detail
and scale via the process of map generalisation. ...